Awning-blind hinge.



H. D. WHEATLEY.

AWNING BLIND HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.24,1912.

Patented Aug. 5, 1913.

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AWNING-BLIND HINGE.

Application filed January 24, 1912.

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Re it kno-wn that I, HARRY D. VHEATLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Awning-Blind Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to awning blind hinges for window shutters of that class where two shutters are used for a window, each shutter being hinged to one side of the frame that is lixed in the wall of a house, and where provision is also made for hinging the tops of the two shutters so that when the shutters have the closed position the bottoms may be pushed outward from the window sill and the shutters take an inclined position like an awning.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention.

Figure l is a vertical section of a sill and lintel of a window and showing an edge view of one of the shutters in vertical position, and in broken lines indicating the in- -clined awning position the shutters may take. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3 showing the side of the window frame in section, one shutter closed, and an upper hinge. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the lintel of the window and one shutter closed, and showing the upper hinge. Fig. 4l is a perspective view of an upper hinge; this figure being on a slightly smaller scale than the same hinge in Fig. 3.

The shutters may be of any ordinary construction and fitted in an ordinary frame, C, in the wall of a house. An upper hinge, D, has vert-ical pintle-pin, l; the leaf, 2, has holes for screws see Fig. 7, that enter the window-frame, C, and holds the vertical joint, l, stationary; the other leaf, 4, has no screw holes and is not directly attached to a shutter, although the vertical side bar, (i, of the shutter, A, contacts loosely with said leaf and moves with it. rllhe said leaf, 4, has a flange, 5, that is at right-angles with respect to the leaf, and said flange in the vertical direction is longer, and extends upward further than said leaf. The flange, 5, may have a vertical edge, l2, turned at aright-angle, and this edge extends upward from the leaf, 4, to the horizontal pintlejoint, 7. This turned edge prevents the top end of the flange, 5, from yielding while it sustains the entire weight of the shutter, A,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 5,1913.

Serial No. 673,062.

at the time the shutter has the inclined or awning position. This upper hinge in addition to the vertical pintle-pin, l, has a second pintle-pin, 7, which extends in a horizontal direction (that is at right-angles with respect to pintle pin, 1,) and provides a third leaf, 8, that connects with the upper end of the fiange, 5; this leaf has screwholes, 9, through which screws, 10, pass and attach said leaf to the top end and at the inside surface of the shutter, this leaf is embedded in the surface of the shutter, as shown in Fig. 3. When the shutter, A, is closed it fits wholly within the surrounding window-frame, C. The extremity of said top end of the shutter is beveled off at, ll, below the lintel of the window to enable the bottom of the shutter to be pushed outward and let the shutter swing on the horizontal pint-le-pin, 7, and take an inclined awning` position, as indicated in Fig. l.

lt will be seen that the vertical side bar, 6, of the shutter, A, has its edge in loose contact with the leaf, t, and its inner surface in loose contact with the right-angled flange, 5, and the third leaf, S, on said flange is screwed to the topmost end of said inner surface of the shutter. l/Vhen the bottom of shutter, A., is pushed outward by hanging from the third leaf, 8, and in swinging outward the vertical side-bar, 6, will slide past the vertical joint, l, on the hinge because that joint always remains stationary on the window frame.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Fatent is The combination of the window-frame; a shutter which lits wholly within the window frame when closed; and an upper hinge having a leaf, 2, permanently secured to the inner side of the window-frame, a second leaf, t, jointed by a vertical pintle to the first-named leaf and having a flange, 5, at riOht angles to said second leaf and extending upward therefrom and provided with a vertical turned-edge, 12, and another leaf jointed to said flange and attached to the top end of said shutter.

In testimony whereof l afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY D. VHEATLEY. Witnesses:

CLEVELAND R. BEALMEAR, ERNEST B. BLOCK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

